Thoughts on Education Policy

Corey:  Last week , we discussed how to deal with disaffected students in the classroom. One theme that emerged in the discussion was the po...

Corey: Last week , we discussed who should go to college and who shouldn’t. Part of that depends on who will benefit from more schooling and...

This is the first installment of what I hope to make a recurring series of education roundtables . Corey: EdWeek just ran an article on a...

Starting this morning, I'm going to introduce a new feature on this blog: education roundtables.  The basic premise is that I'm goin...

Earlier , I wrote a post pointing out that Teach For America members can do a lot of good after their two-year commitment is up even if they...

Eduwonk writes that the number of people signed up for Teach for America's upcoming summit "should put to rest the idea that corp...

I was struck by  this NY Times piece  discussing a recent report  by the National Academy of Sciences on longevity in the US and other natio...

With all the discussion surrounding the need to fire "bad teachers" these days, I wish we could take a step back and examine how m...

Last week, we had 3.6 inches of snow in Nashville (2.5 inches on Monday morning, .6 inches on Tuesday, .4 inches in Wednesday, and .1 inches...

The NY Times today profiles some fairly reasonable, and minor, changes to the way tenure is granted to teachers in NYC (principals a.) have...